Thirty officers burst into a house church and arrested 29 believers, later detaining some of them for up to ten days. At about 8 p.m. on March 30, 2018, nearly 30 heavily armed officers from the Pizhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province and a local police...
House Churches
Two Christian Sisters Persecuted for Years
Two sisters who were co-workers in a house church in Liaocheng city, Shandong, faced cruel persecution by the Chinese Communist authorities since 2008. Dong Lingyun and her younger sister Dong Lingxia (pseudonyms) have been arrested and imprisoned multiple time for...
House Church Leader Sent to Prison and Over 70 Believers Implicated
A house church leader from Shanxi was arrested in July 2017 and imprisoned for six months; 70 members of the same church were questioned after his arrest. According to an inside source, on July 31, 2017, officers from a local police station apprehended a house church...
House Church Co-workers Sent to Prison Without Any Proof
Four co-workers of a house church in Bin county of Harbin city were apprehended by the police during a church meeting; they were later sentenced to long prison terms. In May 2014, the leader of the house church, Cao Hong (pseudonym), and three co-workers were...
Elderly Christian Lady Under Police Surveillance
Repeatedly arrested and tortured, a 71-year-old house church leader is still harassed by the police. Liu Yunjin (pseudonym) is the leader of a house church in Daye city, Hubei. She has been arrested by the police three times in the past, tortured, and is currently...
Elderly Christian Tortured to Death for His Belief
Xin Zhuo was a Christian from a house church in Wudan town of Ongnuid Banner in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia. He became a believer in 1998 and attracted the attention of the local police because of his frequent preaching. He was arrested but continued to preach,...
House Church Christian “Disappears” in Henan
Bitter Winter has learned that house church Christian Qiao Gang (pseudonym) of Shangqiu City, Henan, was summoned to a local police station on May 4 of 2018, and has not been heard from since. When Qiao’s family inquired into the matter, they were told that he had...
Four Christians Arrested in Hubei Province, One Remains in Custody
On June 6, 2018, four Christians from a house Church in the city of Yicheng, Hubei Province were arrested by police and had their homes searched. To date, one of them is still being held illegally. On June 6 at a little past 2 p.m., 54-year-old Christian Sun Zhen...
Charismatic House Church Member Beaten by Police in Inner Mongolia
Over a hundred Christians from a charismatic house church in Inner Mongolia were beaten by the local armed police while they were in a gathering in July 2017. One elderly believer approaching eighty fainted after being tased, four others were forcibly arrested. Two of...
Christian Couple in Xinjiang Sentenced for Years, Family Members Harassed by Authorities
Source: Direct Reports from China Date: July 2, 2018 On September 26, 2016, a Christian couple from Nilka County, Yili city in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was arrested by the police of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and later sent to prison to serve long...







